DIY Ombre Sunset Love Birds Wood Art

This is my favorite wood art project so far. I loved the lovebirds but I really wanted them to have a sunset in the background. I browsed a couple Ombre painting techniques and came up with my own technique. I've been using more of a "color wash" (watered down paint) technique on wood, so the grain shows through. I wanted to keep this effect in my sunset project. 

I starts with four sunset-ish colors. I put a glob of each on my "palette".  Start out with a piece of wood that is sanded to your preferred texture. My wood of choice is old, weathered fence paneling. 

With a damp foam brush paint your sun, and a circle of orange, pink and purple around the sun.

Keeping the foam brush damp, take some pink paint and drag from the pink circle halfway into the purple area. Blot the two colors together. 

Continue blending the rest of the colors and let it dry. 

After it dries, give it a few swipes with a fine grit sandpaper. Trace your love birds onto the wood.

And fill it in!